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SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council Thursday, as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained
SANAA, Yemen (AP) Yemen's exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council Thursday, as international and regional efforts to end the country's long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce.
On Thursday, Yemen’s exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi transferred his powers to a presidential council. It remains to be seen whether the move will help prolong a recent two-month truce and bring an end to the civil war that has been raging since 2014.
At the conclusion of a week of Yemeni-Yemeni internal deliberations hosted by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, the government of Abdo Rabo Mansour Hadi announced sweeping changes meant to clear away obstacles to cooperation among the anti-Houthi forces in the country and, perhaps, open the door to negotiations to end the civil war now in its eighth year.